linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 0/3] locking/mutex: Enable optimistic spinning of lock waiter

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Message-Id: <1470853530-37540-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:25:27 -0400
From:	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@....com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Imre Deak <imre.deak@...el.com>,
	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 0/3] locking/mutex: Enable optimistic spinning of lock waiter

v4->v5:
 - Clean up some comments in source files submit logs as suggested
   by PeterZ.

v3->v4:
 - Replace patch 3 by a new one to add a flag to ensure forward
   progress of the waiter-spinner.

v2->v3:
 - Remove patch 4 as it is not useful.
 - Allow need_resched() check for waiter & add more comments about
   changes to address issues raised by PeterZ.

v1->v2:
 - Set task state to running before doing optimistic spinning.
 - Add 2 more patches to handle possible missed wakeups and wasteful
   spinning in try_to_wake_up() function.

This patchset is a variant of PeterZ's "locking/mutex: Avoid spinner
vs waiter starvation" patch. The major difference is that the
waiter-spinner won't enter into the OSQ used by the spinners. Instead,
it will spin directly on the lock in parallel with the queue head
of the OSQ. So there may be a bit more cacheline contention on the
lock cacheline, but that shouldn't cause noticeable impact on system
performance.

This patchset tries to address 2 issues with Peter's patch:

 1) Ding Tianhong still find that hanging task could happen in some cases.
 2) Jason Low found that there was performance regression for some AIM7
    workloads.

By making the waiter-spinner to spin directly on the mutex, it will
increase the chance for the waiter-spinner to get the lock instead
of waiting in the OSQ for its turn.

Patch 1 modifies the mutex_optimistic_spin() function to enable it
to be called by a waiter-spinner that doesn't need to go into the OSQ.

Patch 2 modifies the mutex locking slowpath to make the waiter call
mutex_optimistic_spin() to do spinning after being waken up.

Patch 3 adds a new flag to give priority to the waiter-spinner to
acquire the lock, thus ensuring forward progress.

Waiman Long (3):
  locking/mutex: Add waiter parameter to mutex_optimistic_spin()
  locking/mutex: Enable optimistic spinning of woken task in wait queue
  locking/mutex: Ensure forward progress of waiter-spinner

 include/linux/mutex.h  |    1 +
 kernel/locking/mutex.c |  109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)